%0 Journal Article
%T A Postmodernist Reading of Sam Shepard's Buried Child
%A Noorbakhsh Hooti
%A Samaneh Shooshtarian
%J Canadian Social Science
%D 2011
%I Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture
%X : This paper attempts to analyze postmodernism as a style in Shepard's late-twentieth-century's play, Buried Child. As an example of a postmodern drama, Buried Child embodies ambiguity, discontinuity, pluralism, perversion, deformation, disintegration, deconstruction and difference that Ihab Hassan has identified as essential to postmodern works. Moreover, it is attempted to show that in his depiction of American Family in decline, Shepard brings into account a consideration of postmodernity according to Baudrillard's theory of "simulation" and "loss of the real", Derrida's concept of "deconstruction", andLyotard's theory of "the fall of grand narratives". Finally, the study reaches the conclusion by displaying that all these features altogether have been the real key to the sense of fragmentation felt among the family members, which bring to light the postmodernist environment of the postmodern world. Key words: Postmodernist Literature; Intertextuality; Metanarrative; Language Game; Parody; Pastiche; Simulacrum R¨¦sum¨¦: Cet article tente d'analyser le post-modernisme comme un style ¨¤ la fin du XXe si¨¨cle jou¨¦e dans la pi¨¨ce de Shepard, Buried Child. A titre d'exemple d'un drame post-moderne, Buried Child incarne l'ambigu t¨¦, la discontinuit¨¦, le pluralisme, la perversion, la d¨¦formation, la d¨¦sint¨¦gration, la d¨¦contraction et la diff¨¦rence que Ihab Hassan a identifi¨¦es comme ¨¦tant essentielles ¨¤ des  uvres post-moderne. En outre, il est tent¨¦ de montrer que, dans sa description de la famille am¨¦ricaine en d¨¦clin, Shepard met en consid¨¦ration d'un ¨¦l¨¦ment de la postmodernit¨¦ selon la th¨¦orie de Baudrillard de  simulation  et  perte du r¨¦el , le concept de  d¨¦contraction  de Derrida, et la th¨¦orie de  la chute des grands r¨¦cits  de Lyotard. Enfin, l'¨¦tude arrive ¨¤ la conclusion en affichant que toutes ces caract¨¦ristiques au total ont ¨¦t¨¦ la v¨¦ritable cl¨¦ de sens de la fragmentation senti parmi les membres de la famille, qui mettent en lumi¨¨re l'environnement de post-moderne du monde post-moderne. Mots cl¨¦s: Litt¨¦rature postmoderne; Intersexualit¨¦; M¨¦trait; Jeu de langage; Parodie; Pastiche; Simulacre
%K Postmodernist Literature
%K Intertextuality
%K Metanarrative
%K Language Game
%K Parody
%K Pastiche
%K Simulacrum
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